I am delighted to tell you that “Executioner ” has been shortlisted in the Landscape category of the Open Competition at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. It has been selected from 326,997 images entered from 200 countries and territories.

I am delighted to announce that I’ve won the 2018 Amateur Photographer of the Year competition. Many thanks to everyone who has wished me well and congratulations to the other successful entrants. #apoy #amateurphotographer

Really pleased to announce that “Moonshine” an ICM image of Brixham Breakwater has been awarded a commendation in this years Landscape Photographer of the Year. The image will now appear in the 12th annual and also at the upcoming exhibition at Waterloo station.

2017 was a great year for me, but thats mainly down to being inspired by the great images that are posted every week on Twitter, Flickr, FB and Instagram. Viewing these images drives me on and makes me want to improve everyday.

Here are 10 of my favourite 2017 images (in no particular order) from various photographers I follow on the social media platforms.

Im pleased to announce that I have won Wex Photographer of the Year for the second year running. It was a very tight contest right up until the final week, when I managed to shortlist and secure the overall win. The exhibition and presentation will this year be held at the new Wex store in London, I'm very much looking forward to meeting everyone and having a few beers!

Below are a few of my favourite images I entered into the competition in 2017.

Im pleased to announce that I have won the 'Your View' category in this years Landscape Photographer of the year. This was way beyond any expectations I had and it's most deftly my proudest achievement to date since starting my photography journey.

The winning shot is probably my favourite image to date 'Stilts', this shot is published in the LPOTY 2017 book for which I have received a signed copy from Charlie Waite. Winning the 'Your View' category also means I have won prize money of £1000 :-)

STILTS - Winner in Your View

I was also lucky enough to have another commended image 'Destruction' in the same category, this shot also features in the book.

I went into 2016 with my main goal of progressing and improving my photography. I have owned a DSLR for several years now, but in all honesty I have never really taken photography very seriously before 2015 when I started to become addicted to several genre's of photography including macro and landscape.

In 2016 I found myself concentrating more on landscape, and in particular long exposure mono or muted colour seascapes. Now while I'm happy with my progression in this particular style of photography I still have much to learn and there are many places I want to shoot.

TWISTED - First place WPOTY

TWITTERin May I decided to re-open my Twitter account as I had heard various people talk about the great community of photographers, that I could hopefully draw inspiration and learn from. Theres no doubt about it there are some wonderful photographers on Twitter, and I will hopefully be doing another blog soon with my top 10 images from Twitter togs. If you are a keen photographer, the best advice I can offer you is get on Twitter and join in the fun!

WEX PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHIER OF THE YEARWPOTY is a popular weekly photographic competition run by Wex Photographic on Twitter. Each Monday hundreds of photographers (sometimes up to 400) enter the competition by submitting a shot from the previous week with the hashtag #wexmondays. All these entries are then judged by wex and then they choose a shortlist of 10 from which a top 3 are announced! The top 3 placed entries each week then receive points which contribute to the overall standings in the comp (1st 50pts . 2nd 20pts . 3rd 10pts).

I started WPOTY in May, and to be honest I didn't really believe I could do well having seen the standard of entries on show, my main aim was to get a top three entry before the end of the comp!

Well its safe to say I surpassed my early expectations by some margin, racking up a total of 310pts including 4 winning images and eventually winning the competition. This really was something I didn't believe to be possible to achieve, I still feel like I'm just at the start of my photography journey with so much to learn and improve on.

So I've decided to start my blog section of the site all over again, especially now I am focussing solely on landscape photography. I have deleted a couple sections on the site (concept 7 wildlife) and will now only be uploading my landscape work. I also intend to try and keep the blog up to date with short entries from various landscape outings!

Friday 22nd September 2016... I thought I'd try my hand at some ICM photography after being inspired by the wonderful work of Andy Gray. Andy really has perfected the art of ICM Abstract Landscapes, if you haven't seen his work I strongly suggest you take a look: http://andrewsgray.photography

Here's my first attempt at ICM (intentional camera movement), taken from Bantham Beach looking towards Burgh Island on the South Hams coast. I wanted my ICM to reflect my current minimalist style so I have framed the island and headland with plenty of negative space to the foreground but also kept some detain in this area.